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Art (California) on 05/14/2020

Dr. Neel is currently at 14 patients and according to him, all are doing very well. This is a far cry from what the reports are saying about the drugs that are currently being tested for Covid-19. With any of those drugs, people still die! It just seems odd that they will not even consider testing melatonin when they already know that none of the current drugs being tested are showing as good results or even just fair results. Melatonin, from hundreds of previous studies has already shown that its multiple methods of action are very likely to have a very significant impact against Covid-19, but the direction seems to remain testing drugs that are not doing much of anything against this virus. In the meantime, people continue to die. Melatonin has a better safety profile than any of the drugs being tested. Melatonin is available over the counter here in the US and production can be ramped up quickly if it proves to work because there are multiple manufacturers already making it. Here is an incomplete list of everything that they currently know Covid-19 can do to humans: 1. Heart attacks 2. Strokes 3. Neuronal damage 4. Liver damage 5. Kidney damage 6. Damage to the spleen 7. Skin damage 8. Heart damage 9. Lung damage 10. Pneumonia 11. Loss of taste and smell 12. Kawasaki or Kawasaki like disease 13. Seizures 14. Death 15. Damage to the eyes 16. Blood clots 17. Damage to the endothelium 18. Oxygen deprivation 19. Fibrosis 20. Damage to the brain 21. Cytokine storm 22. Covid-19 toes 23. Tissue damage throughout the body 24. Organ failure 25. Fever and oxidative stress Just about any of the above items would require significant treatment, but with Covid-19, you are almost guaranteed to get at least 5 of these symptoms, which means that it is like your body is fighting multiple diseases all at one time! Melatonin is known through studies to ameliorate symptoms related to this whole list. Furthermore, it is one of the most potent antioxidants in the human body and it upregulates gene expression of the most potent antioxidants of the body and has potent antiinflammatory qualities which are thought to potentially prevent the potential for a cytokine storm. Having this many things going on in the body at one time will certainly deplete the natural antioxidant defense system which means the elevated levels of ROS is going to be causing cellular damage throughout the body and melatonin will definitely bring that elevated ROS level down. Given the above, it seems like melatonin would be high on the list for potential drug candidates to treat and test against Covid-19, but such is not the case. I wonder why that is? Art
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Replied By Bill (Philippines) on 05/15/2020

Hi Art... Concerning your question about why melatonin has not been already recognized as a successful treatment for COVID-19, it really depends on how much you trust the American drugs companies and the US medical system. For some while now, I've realized that the FDA, in cahoots with the power of the drugs companies, have insured that they are indeed the Lords of Medicine in every sense. To this end, the FDA has already ensured that all research must adhere to their own broken and perverted version of "the scientific method". In effect, this means that the FDA owns ALL the medical laws in America and in the West. These biased laws are, for the most part, mainly used to banish any competing opposition i.e. natural herbal therapies and nutraceuticals. For instance, did you know that melatonin has been ordained by the FDA -- and backed by a Federal Law -- to be a food and not a drug? And according to that law, a substance defined by the FDA as a food can never be used in modern medicine as a drug. Did you know that? That's according to the medical laws already on the statute books in America (and in other Western countries). And that's also why the FDA will never allow food or nutraceutical substances like Melatonin or BHT to see daylight in any US hospital.
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Replied By Art (California) on 05/15/2020

Wow, Bill! I was not aware of that point about the FDA! I was aware that the large pharmaceutical companies do what they can to eliminate any competition, even in a pandemic! It is a sad state of affairs for the citizens though, because they are the ones who get hurt in the end. I am glad that there are doctors like Dr. Neel who are willing to buck the system and use something like melatonin rather than push the current list of drugs for C-19 which seem mostly just marginally effective if at all and people still die, so that to me is not my idea of effective! We are fortunate that we have EC to share these ideas that we will likely never hear from our doctors! Thank you for EC, Deirdre and thank you for the information, Bill! Art

Replied By Art (California) on 05/16/2020

Hi, Bill, Okay, but can you tell me what you really feel!!! I agree 100% with what you said, sadly. Here, it seems to always come down to money and or politics. I was hoping that the pandemic might change things, at least for a moment,but that is obviously not the case, but I certainly don't see a problem with asking other governments who seem to have a handle on Covid-19, what they are doing to make that happen, but that doesn't seem to be happening either. I think of the combination of melatonin and vitamin C (M+C) as a possible way to move forward in a safer manner as the government begins to reopen the economy because opening is assuredly going to cause an increase in new cases and deaths. Yes, more people will get sick at a faster rate with the reopening, but M+C shows the potential to lower that death rate significantly if Dr. Neels success with his C-19 patients is any indicator. Thank you for the comments and information! Art

Replied By Bill (Philippines) on 05/16/2020

Hi Art...I confess that I too am somewhat shocked by the hapless anti-COVID-19 strategies that mostly the western countries are using against COVID-19. These strategies are not working by any stretch of the imagination are they? And when you start sending people back to work when both the infection rate and the death rate are still high then how sensible is that? The governments are saying that they need everyone back at work and the FDA are saying "No, no -- more people will die". Well, they are both right in a way because it's like being stuck between a rock and a hard place. Because if people don't go back to work the national economy will die a horrible death and people will continue to die anyway and if people do go back to work then even more people will likely die. So what should we do? The answer is obvious. All the American and European government leaders should look around at other world nations that have used successful treatment therapies against COVID-19. Oh look, China has got it's death rate down to zero.....How did they do that? Maybe we should talk to them in a friendly way and see if they can help us out? Is America or Europe talking in a friendly way to China to see how they achieved a death rate of zero with a population of 1.3 billion? Not a cat in hell's chance. All the western leaders are all still plying their stupid political agendas, propaganda and misinformation for other lowly political reasons while their people -- their own citizens -- continue to die in high numbers in there own countries. This is particularly true for both the US and UK. And this is exactly what the drugs companies want. They want confusion and fear, because when their fast-tracked COVID-19 vaccines eventually become available in 18 months or so then every western country will be clamoring for a vaccine -- ANY vaccine. That is the really scary part. As far as I can see, there has been no significant research at all on the mutation rate of COVID-19. This is very important because if the mutation rate is too high then the vaccines will not work well. Why do I say this? In 2014, the US CDC actually apologized publicly for the fact for the previous years flu vaccine failed so badly. I mean heck, if our eminent vaccine companies can't even get the simple flu vaccine right then what chance those same vaccine companies getting a much more complex COVID-19 vaccine right? And what about the likely and obvious dangers of rushing through a COVID-19 vaccine in a tenth the time it would normally take to make a regular vaccine? All bad. I've also just read some interesting articles about how Iran who, without the help of any western drugs (because of the US embargo), has managed to quickly flatten her COVID-19 infection rate and rapidly reduce her own COVID-19 death rate. I think China helped Iran initially and now Iran is successfully running with the ball and is currently helping infected people from other countries in her own region because she now appears to have a successful therapeutic treatment for COVID-19. So if our western leaders want you to go back to work and get their economies up to speed again -- without a climbing COVID-19 death rate then, without any doubt, they will need to find a successful therapeutic COVID-19 treatment to achieve that. And what about hydroxychloroquine and remdesevir? I think Melatonin, at 20mg taken 4 times a day with 1000mgs vitamin C, would be far more effective than using both those failed drugs. Melatonin also has a high safety profile. That's my honest opinion from looking at the research.